Trolls is DreamWorks animation’s attempt to turn the troll dolls into the Smurfs. It cobbles together a flimsy fantasy world for ...

Like all good fantasy sequels, Dreamworks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon 2 takes the world its predecessor built a...

An R-rated comedy can sour quickly. There’s a tendency among Hollywood’s purveyors of that subgenre to rush to the R and ...

I get – or is that hope? – Kick-Ass 2 , the thematically ugly follow-up to a film that was none-too-pretty to start with, is int...

The creative people at Laika, the stop-motion animation company that first brought us Henry “ Nightmare Before Christmas ” Selic...

Fright Night , a Todd Holland film from 1985, is a horror comedy about a teenaged horror fan who is convinced that there is a va...

There’s a commercial for the new R-rated adaptation of Mark Millar’s superhero comic Kick-Ass that contains, among several sound-bites fr...

Year One is an uneven episodic comedy, goofily charming at times, cringe-worthy at others. It stars Jack Black and Michael Cera as pre-hist...